A blog about genealogy and thoughts about the various roots and branches of my family tree as well as the times in which my ancestors lived.Included are the West, White,and McFarland families.WARNING:DO NOT TAKE ALL OF MY FAMILY RECORDS AS GOSPEL. ALWAYS CONFIRM YOUR OWN RESEARCH!

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Sunday, July 22, 2007

A FINE WEDDING

My nephew Paul was married today and it was a nice wedding.He was handsome and his bride Jen was radiant and they areboth such good young people.

Man, does that ever make me feel old, looking at that.

I rode down to the reception with my brother and his two sonsand along the way I explained about the family tree. By thetime I was done, my youngest nephew Matt complained his headhurt!

There was a little mixup with the table seatings but we ended upwhere we were supposed to be with a table with my two aunts.Aunt Emily from my mother’s side came with her daughterWinnie and Winnie’s husband David. From my father’s side therewas his sister, my Aunt Dorothy, and cousin Louise her daughter.My mom’s friend Joe B. who was as close as a grandfather toCheryl’s kids was also there with us along with the minister whohad performed the ceremony.

I’d brought along photocopies of my Grandfather West’s WWIdraft card and John Ames’ Revolutionary War pension files forAunt Dot. I also brought copies of great Grandfather White’sWWI draft card, the cards for the McFarland brothers, somecensus pages and other information on that side of the familyfor Emily and Winnie.

And it turned out Aunt Dot had the same idea. She brought afolder with pictures of Grandfather and Great Grandfather Westand pictures of Great Grandmother Lottie Barker and her foursisters. There was also a copy of Grandfather West’s WWIdischarge papers from the Army and a copy of a certified abstractof the marriage of Arvilla Ames' and John C (Cutter) West’smarriage record.

But the best of all are the thirteen handwritten pages entitled“Memories” that are Dot’s reminisces of her and Dad’s childhoodin Maine. I will be posting most of it here over the course of thenext week or so.

We had a good time talking about family history and genealogy.I even learned a few new things about Grandfather White that Ihadn’t known concerning the reason Aggie divorced him.